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Health knowledge made personal
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Cystic Fibrosis Patients' Self-assessment Of Health Can Predict Prognosis (Medical News Today)
Fri Jan 02 03:15:38 PST 2009
Adult Cystic Fibrosis patients can provide important information that helps to predict their prognosis, according to research that asked 223 adult CF patients to assess their own health and well-being. "We wished to see whether patients themselves had clinically relevant insight to their disease,...
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Cystic Fibrosis Patients' Self-assessment Of Health Can Predict Prognosis (Science Daily)
Mon Dec 29 06:26:22 PST 2008
Adult cystic fibrosis patients can provide important information that helps to predict their prognosis, according to research that asked 223 adult CF patients to assess their own health and well-being.
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Study raises hope for obesity treatment (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Tue Jan 06 16:11:59 PST 2009
U.S. researchers may have found an obesity treatment that unlocks the fat-fighting promise of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone once hailed as the answer to the battle of the bulge.
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Two drugs can help in fight against fat: study (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Tue Jan 06 11:42:12 PST 2009
The hormone leptin, combined with one of two US-approved drugs, may suppress appetite in overweight people, making it a potentially powerful weapon in the fight against obesity, according to a study published Tuesday.
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Researchers Report Progress in Fight Against Fat (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Tue Jan 06 09:01:43 PST 2009
TUESDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers are reporting in two new studies that they seem to be moving closer to the holy grail of new treatments for obesity.
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Show to raise money for lung transplant (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
Wed Jan 07 02:05:44 PST 2009
RUMFORD - Bikes, boards and inline skates, and the people who ride them will bring an extreme sports performance to the Mountain Valley High School gymnasium Saturday to help pay for a lung transplant for a former Rumford woman.
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Obesity: Reviving The Promise Of Leptin (Medical News Today)
Wed Jan 07 04:15:19 PST 2009
The discovery more than a decade ago of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone secreted by fat tissue, generated headlines and great hopes for an effective treatment for obesity. But hopes dimmed when it was found that obese people are unresponsive to leptin due to development of leptin resistan...
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New hope for leptin as a solution to obesity (News-Medical-Net)
Wed Jan 07 00:22:57 PST 2009
The discovery more than a decade ago of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone secreted by fat tissue, generated headlines and great hopes for an effective treatment for obesity.
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Researchers Report Progress in Fight Against Fat (Health Scout)
Tue Jan 06 11:37:56 PST 2009
Two drugs and a genetic variation are focus of promising studies.
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Obesity: Reviving The Promise Of Leptin (Science Daily)
Tue Jan 06 13:11:32 PST 2009
The 1995 discovery of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone, generated great hopes for an effective obesity drug. But hopes dimmed when it was found that obese people are leptin-resistant. Now, researchers have, for the first time, re-sensitized the brain to leptin, using oral drugs that are al...
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